It’s been a while since the MAC and FCM Tower have held a runway safety and noise abatement meeting, but two are coming up in October — see below. Pilots who operate aircraft at Flying Cloud Airport (FCM) are invited to participate in upcoming pilot...

Cloud 7 members and friends, here’s an opportunity you don’t want to miss: Ben McQuillan’s 11th Annual Flying Cloud Air Tour, scheduled for Saturday, September 20, 2014. This will be a fun, 200 mile VFR trip to Springfield and Granite Falls,...

It’s here! Our first installs of the new Garmin GTN 650 navigator have been completed in C172 N65045, C182 N735LL, and C210 N761SP. Next up is C172 N54589, which will be completed by July 24. The rest of the fleet will be completed in August. Current members,...

Our most recent club fly-out was a trip to the Cirrus Aircraft factory at Duluth International Airport (KDLH) on Saturday, June 28.The roster included five club members, plus friends and family. In 761SP, Keith Tschohl flew with wife Chandra, club member Bob Barker,...

At the Cloud 7 special meeting on May 29, the membership approved a motion to perform a fleet wide replacement of our GNS 430W navigators with Garmin’s next-generation GTN 650. The first units will be ordered in early June, with one of our C172s scheduled to upgrade...